Etymology: (< L Venus, s. Vener- orig. a neut. common n. meaning “physical desire,” hence “qualities exciting desire, charm,”“a goddess personifying sexual attractiveness”; c. Skt vana&hdotbelow; desire, akin to wish ; cf. venerate , venom)
Definition of 'Venus'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)Venus the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star' "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
4. (noun)Venus any one of numerous species of marinebivalve shells of the genusVenus or familyVeneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food
Definitions of 'Venus'
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. Venus the Romangoddess of love, of wedded love, and of beauty (originally of the spring), and at length identified with the Greek Aphrodité (q. v.); she was regarded as the tutelary goddess of Rome, and had a temple to her honour in the Forum.
2. Venus an interiorplanet of the solar system, revolving in an orbitoutside that of Mercury and within that of the earth, nearly as large as the latter; is 67 millions of miles from the sun, round which it revolves in 224 days, while it takes 23¼ hours to rotate on its own axis; it is the brightest of the heavenly bodies, and appears in the sky now as the morning star, now as the evening star, according as it rises before the sun or sets after it, so that it is always seen either in the E. or the W.; when right between us and the sun it is seen moving as a blackspot on the sun's disk, a phenomenon known as "Transit of Venus," the lastinstance of which occurred in 1882, and that will not occur again till after 105½ years.
Definition of 'Venus'
U.S. National Library of Medicine
1. Venus The secondplanet in order from the sun. It has no known natural satellites. It is one of the four inner or terrestrial planets of the solar system.
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